Stephen Harris wrote:
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 09:48:45AM -0600, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote:
Sure I understand that, but If I wanted it to be within 15 seconds response, I'd have to check 4times x 60 seconds x 60 minutes x 24 hours per day. Kind of a waste for a file that may or may not be transmitted each day.
I was thinking that perhaps there was something that would monitor the SYSLOG and could trigger jobs (scripts) based on a syslog entry.
You mean...
tail -f messages | grep "line.i.want" | while read line do something $line done
Be careful with log rotation.
Look for the pop-before-smtp package (It's in Debian, I don't recall where it came from). It's Perl, it monitors the log and copes with log rotation, and could be adapted to your task.
However, that ftp daemon looks good. This wouldn't be good to run in virtual machines either.